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BOWL IEOR WATER OLOSETSI No. 275,900 Patented Apr. 17,1883.

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PATENT JOSEPH J. B. FREY, Oh NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOWL FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,900, dated April 1'7, 1883.

Application filed December 23, 1882.

To all whom it may concern (No model.)

away with, while a perfect washing of both Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. B. FREY, of the sale and the bowl is obtained.

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bowls for ater-Closets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates, in part, to bowls for water-closets, which are provided with slopsafes or drip-trays that form conductors and marginal covers around the tops of the bowls when the hinged seat is raised for emptying slops into the bowl, or for carrying oft urine when the closet is used simply as a urinal, and whereby soiling or wetting the seat is prevented. Water-closet bowls have thus been constructed or provided in which the slop-safe or drip-tray has formed an integral portion of the earthenware or porcelain bowl; but such have been defective in not being furnished with a flushing device or sprinkler for washing and removing urine or other ofl'ensive matter from the slop-safe after use. To obviate this I invented a slop or urinal safe for waterclosets, and on July 11, 1882, obtained Letters Patent No. 260,967 for the same. in which the slop-safe was provided with a flushing-rim or sprinkler arranged along one=or more of its outer marginal sides for washing the upper surface of the safe. In some cases 1 proposed to construct this safe with flushing rims or devices on both its inner and outer margins; but such slop-safe, when used as a separate device to be seated on the bowl, formed an independent structure and made a joint necessary between the top of thebowl and the safe,

and when said safe was also constructed to form a flushing device for the bowl itself the removal of it from any cause left the bowl without any flushing attachment.

My invention consists in a water-closet bowl having a slop-safe made to form an integral portion of it, and constructed with flushing rims or ducts, also forming integral portions of the same combined structure, and serving respectively to wash or flush the interior of the bowl and the top of the slop-safe. By this arrangement multiplicity of parts is avoided, and joints which admit of objectionable leakage or escape are reduced, and a joint between the slop-safe and the top of the bowl is done The invention also includes a branch pipe or connection between the pipe which supplies water to the flushing-rim of the bowl and the flushing rim or device of the slop-safe, whereby a free and independent supply of water is established for both of said flushing or washing devices.

The invention is more especially designed to be applied to bowls made of earthenware or porcelain, and to what are known as sideoutlet water-closets, in which the bowl connects by a lower duct with a side chamber that contains the valve for controlling egress from the bowl to the soil pipe or trap of the closet. Heretofore such side chamber has usually been a separate structure from the bowl and been united therewith by a flange or other joint, which is not only liable to leak, but is often very difficult to make or keep tight. To obviate this, and thereby to reduce still further the number of joints connected with the bowl, I construct the bowl of a side-outlet water-closet not only with aslop-safe and flushing-ducts for both the safe and bowl, but also with its side outlet or valve-chamber made to form an integral portion of the bowl.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figures 1 and 2 represent vertical sections in planes at right angles to each other, on the lines :10 a: and y 3 respectively, of a bowl of a side-outlet water-closet constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 3 a plan of the same.

A in the drawings indicates the bowl of the closet, which it is proposed to construct of earthenware or porcelain, and which has its side-outlet chamber Bmade to form an integral portion of the bowl, thus doing away with a connecting'joint between said chamber and the bowl. Said bowl is furthermore constructed at its top with a. deep slop-safe or driptray, A, that likewise dispenses with any joint connection between it and the bowl, it being an integral portion of, or rather made of the same piece with, the bowl. Such single structture or combined bowl and safe is constructed IOU along its upper marginal portion, on one or more of its sides, with a washing or flushing rim, b, for distributing water over its upper surface and carrying 011' any urine or ofl'ensive matter lodged thereon into the bowl for discharge by the general outlet from the bowl. Said structure is also formed with a lower flushing rim or water-way, c, for washing the interior of the bowl. Both of these flushing rims or ducts are integral portions of the combined bowl and slop'safe made in one piece, as described, consequently are exempt from those joints which they would necessarily require if made separate. This absence of joints in both the slop-safe and bowl flushing or washing ducts, as well as in the connection of the slopsafe with the bowl, also preferably, as described, in the connection of the bowl with a side-outlet chamber, make the whole a very perfect and complete article, doing away with much fitting of parts together, liability to leakage, and other objectionable features.

As the flushing-rim 0 of the bowl is arranged below the flushing rim or washing-duct b of the slop-safe, there might not be suflicient force of water, by reason of the discharge from the flushing-rim c,to supply the flushing-rim b with water from that source. Consequently 1 supply the flushing-rim c of the bowl with water by the usual inlet or branch,d,and the flushing device I) of the sale by a separate branch pipe, 0. Both these branches d e are designed to connect with the usual pipe,f, that supplies the water'closet with water when opening a valve for the purpose, whereby both the bowl and safe are simultaneously flushed, and as the bowl discharges its contents any ofiensive matter will not only be washed off the safe, but be discharged along with the general contents of the bowl. In this way the slop-safe will always be kept clean and free from bad odor.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 1. A bowl for water-closets, having a slopsafe made to form an integral portion of it, and constructed with flushing rims or ducts, also forming integral portions of the same combined structure, and arranged to flush or wash, respectively, both the top of the slopsafe and the interior of thebowl, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with a water-closet bowl having a slop-safe forming an integral portion of it, and provided with flushing water-ways or ducts for both the slop-safe and the interior of the bowl, as described, a separate watersupply inlet for each, essentially as specified.

3. A bowl for side-outlet water-closets, having a combined slop or urinal safe, flushing or washing ducts for both the safe and interior of the bowl, and a side outlet chamber, all formed out of one and the same piece of material, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the flushing-rim of the slop-safe, of a branch pipe connecting with the pipe which supplies water to the flushingrim of the bowl, as and for the purpose specified.

JOS. J. B. FREY.

Witnesses:

A. GREGORY, O. SEDGWICK. 

